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2014/09/28

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Woman Narrowly Avoids Paying $38 Billion for 2 Airline Tickets

Posted: 27 Sep 2014 04:00 PM PDT

Marion Sessions of Derbyshire, UK, and her husband wanted to visit the seaside Portuguese town of Faro for a relaxing weekend. She tried to purchase two tickets online, so she did a Google search for cheap aline tickets. That took her to eDreams, an online third-party ticket seller with a shady reputation.

Sessions went through the steps of buying the tickets and was about to confirm her purchase when she noticed the price. That's always a good thing to check before making any sort of purchase. But it was especially helpful to Sessions because the price was £23,659,382,125.95. That's about $38,435,849,190.56 USD.

Sessions decided that the price was a bit too much, so she declined to complete the transaction. Sky News reports:

"I shudder to think what may have happened had I agreed... I tried to contact them but there was an out-of-hours message."

A spokeswoman for Spain-based eDreams told Sky News: "eDreams would like to apologise to Mrs Sessions for any inconvenience caused.

"We are continuing to investigate, however it appears to be an isolated incident that we have been unable to replicate.  If it is a bug, we will find it and make every effort to fix it immediately.

-via Nothing to Do with Aborath | Image: Tom's Barn

Various Types Of Hangovers Illustrated By Crap Taxidermy

Posted: 27 Sep 2014 12:00 PM PDT

Hangovers are extremely personal affairs, and everyone has their own brand of bad day after they’ve had too much to drink the night before.

Headaches, nausea and vomiting are pretty standard parts of the average hangover, but some people get the shakes, or a fever, flu like symptoms or memory loss, all things that make you feel like a husk.

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So what better way can there possibly be to illustrate that husky hangover feeling than with crappy taxidermy?!

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The look on their faces says it all- they look as sad as you feel after a long night of Jaeger bombs and frosty pints!

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Check out the rest of the stuffed critters who totally know that hangover feel here  

(Contains NSFW language)

Adventurous Power Up - Suit Up For Adventure!

Posted: 27 Sep 2014 11:00 AM PDT


Adventurous Power Up by Pufahl

Mario found the sweetest Halloween costume, and he can't wait to show it off! It's called the Jakey Suit- it's super stretchy and gives the wearer the power to get mathmatical. Mario discovered it while fighting through the Candy Kingdom's sewer levels, and although it looks like it's made from real dog Mario didn't see any bones lying around the monster's lair so he hopes it's fake fur...

Add some costumed adventure to your geeky wardrobe with this Adventurous Power Up t-shirt by Pufahl, and get your Halloween game on!

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Miskatonic UniversityRabbit of CaerbannogNever Say DieLA SHARKNADOES

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Slice of Pop Life

Posted: 27 Sep 2014 11:00 AM PDT

German artist Matthieu Bourel finds old images of well known and beloved faces such as Gregory Peck and Yul Brenner and transforms them into surreal art pieces. Bourel says, 

“I like to evoke a fake history or inspire nostalgia for a period in time that never truly existed.The obsession of collecting disparate images from books, old magazines and other found material becomes as much a part of the emerging image as the mark-making... A piece often becomes about the search and desire to combine those emergent narrative symbols that seem charged with a familiar yet distant emotion.” 

Bourel lists famed surrealist painter René Magritte as one of his influences; I think hints of Magritte's imagery abound here. Visit Bourel's website to see more of his work and purchase prints. 

Music Video Reveals A Day In The Life Of A Black Metal Teenager

Posted: 27 Sep 2014 10:00 AM PDT

Being a teenager is hard enough, but when you choose to live musically and fashionably on the dark side of life your teen years can feel like a total nightmare.

This teen angst is multiplied when you decide to wear spikes and chains as accessories, or choose to be part of a subculture where you're encouraged to paint your face.

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This semi-factual sorta documentary style music video was created by Jogger way back in 2009, revealing the hard life of a suburban black metal kid.

The song sounds more Sega Master System than Satyricon, but the visuals are pure METAL!!!

-Via Dangerous Minds

Mom Makes Amazing Bento For Her Kids

Posted: 27 Sep 2014 09:00 AM PDT

Spider-Man

Despicable Me

Hello Kitty

Singaporean mother Li Ming is a master artist in the kitchen. She started developing her craft to entertain her sons. Now she makes wonders that are no doubt tasty--if you can bring yourself to bite into one of these works of art.

Continue reading to view more.


My Neighbor Totoro

Mario

Luigi


My Neighbor Totoro

Spider-Man

Snoopy

-via Foodiggity

Batman Evolution

Posted: 27 Sep 2014 08:00 AM PDT

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Batfans are going to love this! The Piano Guys perform a medley of Batman themes, in chronological order, spanning 50 years. They also have some great visual elements, with different versions of the Batmobile and film sets serving as their backdrop (or is it batdrop?). Don’t be discouraged by the length of the video; the song is only four minutes long. The rest is an ad for their new album. -via Viral Viral Videos

Colon, Michigan - The Magic Capital Of The World

Posted: 27 Sep 2014 07:00 AM PDT

If you’re looking for a town that's named after a part of the body, and happens to be a haven for magicians, then you’re in luck- the town of your dreams is called Colon, Michigan.

Colon is one strange place- it's named after a punctuation mark, measures less than two square miles, and the magicians who aren't yet buried in the local graveyard rub elbows with the town's Amish population on a daily basis.

Colon became a magician's mecca when Harry Blackstone Sr. moved there back in 1926, and when Blackstone and Percy Abbott created the Abbott Magic Company, manufacturers of fine magic tricks, the town became irreversibly tied to the magical arts.

Each year the town plays host to magicians from all over the world during Abbott's Magic Get Together, an event that was first held way back in 1934 and is still popular with the magic crowd to this day.

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The Verge put together an interesting feature about "The Magic Capital Of The World", peeling back the veil of secrecy to reveal everyday life in a town full of magicians.

-Via Laughing Squid

Restaurant Offers 25% Discount for 1-Star Yelp Reviews and the Results Are Hilarious

Posted: 27 Sep 2014 06:00 AM PDT

Botto Bistro is an Italian restaurant in Richmond, California. If you use the review website Yelp to preview restaurants before eating, then you probably won't visit it. Its average rating is only 1 star out of 5. But that's exactly what the owner, David Cerretini, wants.

Cerretini explains to Adweek that his plan is a response to what he sees as blackmail by Yelp:

Cerretini claims Yelp called him 20 times a week asking him to advertise. He did, to the tune of $270 for six months. But when he stopped advertising, he claims his reviews turned negative and one of his best reviews even vanished. That, according to Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, is something Yelp is legally entitled to do.

So, Cerretini hatched his 1-star plan. Next to a sassy sign explaining how much it charges for extra marinara sauce ($3 for just a splash, $4 if you want some to smell), Botto Bistro lists its various offenses—from charging for bread to lacking ranch dressing—and suggests patrons give it a 1-star Yelp review in return for 25 percent off a pizza.

Beyond press, it has generated some of the best Amazon-esque reviews on Yelp. The site sent Botto Bistro a threatening little letter, but Cerretini refuses to back down, claiming he's attracting higher-paying customers who are quite loyal. Not to mention, damn funny.

In his site's delightfully sassy FAQ section, Cerretini explains that he's trying to negate the power of Yelp over businesses. So far, his plan appears to be working.

-via That's Nerdalicous!

<i>Pride</i>: Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners

Posted: 27 Sep 2014 05:00 AM PDT

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In 1984-85, the National Union of Mineworkers led a labor strike as a protest against the government shutting down coal mines. The Thatcher government sent in police to break up the picket lines, and refused emergency welfare payments to dependents of those on strike. The strikers found an unlikely ally in Britain’s gay and lesbian population, which banded together to raise money for the strikers, to the tune of thousands of pounds. And that’s the subject of the new movie Pride, which is in limited released in the U.S. Despite the serious and sometimes violent subject matter, the film is a comedy, and has excellent reviews.

In an article at The Guardian about how the movie came about, you can see a 23-minute documentary about the events of the film. The filmmakers and the real-life participants that inspired the movie talk about the movie in this video. -via Metafilter, where’ll you’ll find many more links.

A <i>Magic: the Gathering</i> Wedding Proposal

Posted: 27 Sep 2014 04:00 AM PDT



Lindsey Loree had more on her mind than a fun game of Magic: the Gathering when she interrupted her boyfriend Eric's Lego fun to ask him to play the game with her. Her request didn't seem to Eric to be anything out of the ordinary, as he had been teaching her to play for six months. But what happened during their game was nothing ordinary. As Eric told the story (his account is here and her account is here), 

"We’re in the middle of the game and both hovering around ten life. She’s looking awfully giddy and I’m thinking she’s got some power card that’ll spell doom for me. So I play Time Spiral. She was not happy. We reset and on her turn she smiled and threw a card on the table. What I felt next was confusion. What was that card? Five white for a sorcery and the picture was some dude kissing a girl? There’s no card like that. Well, there is now."

What Lindsey handed him was the card below, asking Eric to marry her. 


Quite a game changer! He goes on with his story,

"Of course I said yes. I made a joking fuss about how her cards were sleeved and mine weren’t and how it’d be really hard to shuffle them. Then she gave me a ring pop, to make it official.

Now, there was a little cheating on her part. I Time Spiraled the card back into her library and while I was shuffling she dropped it in her lap to make sure it was in her next hand. But I suppose that can be forgiven given the circumstances."

Way to be flexible with the rules when necessary! Congratulations to the happy couple. -Via Geekologie.

Game Of Thrones Intro Reimagined As An Old Man Eating Soup

Posted: 27 Sep 2014 03:00 AM PDT

The Game Of Thrones title sequence isn’t the most exciting intro on television, although it does sport a pretty intense soundtrack, so when fans want to make their own version of the intro they can really go either way.

YouTuber Lexavian decided to go the low action way with their reimagined intro, to compensate for the abundance of exciting moments in the show.

Behold the epic excitement of an old man eating a bowl of soup!

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Chances are you'll hear the Game of Thrones theme song every time you heat up a can of Progresso (Red) Wedding Soup from here on out...

-Via Clickhole

Belgian City Will Build an Underground Beer Pipeline

Posted: 27 Sep 2014 02:00 AM PDT


(Photo: Luke Ma)

You can transport beer by hand, horse cart, or truck. Or, even better, in your belly. But these are not efficient means of transporting large quantities of beer.

This has become a problem for the De Halve Maan brewery in Bruges, Belgium. For five hundred years, it has produced beer at its brewery in the center of town. It uses a fleet of trucks to move its beer 3 miles to a distribution facility. That's a problem because the trucks clog up traffic on the city's cobblestone streets.

In response, De Halve Maan has acquired permission to build a 1.8-mile underground pipeline that will move the beer quickly and efficiently. When complete, the plastic pipeline will move about 1,585 gallons of beer per hour.

-via Marginal Revolution

Sapiens - Humans Are The Most Terrifying Species In The Galaxy

Posted: 27 Sep 2014 01:00 AM PDT


Sapiens by Saqman

Every planet has their own version of horror, something or someone they fear which makes for great moments in cinematic history, and for the xenomorphs it's the fear of giving birth. When the xenos took over their first human ship they found a video on board that showed how humans give birth, and to a species that replicates using facehuggers this looked like a total nightmare! Humans became the most terrifying figures in the world of xeno horror, and to this day nothing scares a xenomorph quite like a human baby!

Spread the horror of humanity throughout the galaxy with this Sapiens t-shirt by Saqman, it's a terrifying image that's guaranteed to make people smile.

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Never Give UpI Am Not Your MummyWacky and Beyond

Vale Frycem

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These Medical Researchers Are Competing to See Who Can Quote Bob Dylan in the Most Scientific Articles

Posted: 27 Sep 2014 01:00 AM PDT


(Photo: Gustav Mårtensson)

The men pictured above are researchers at Karolinska Institutet, a medical school in Sweden. For a decade, they've been locked in a fierce competition with each other. Their goal is to quote the singer Bob Dylan more times than any other in their published scientific articles.


(Photo: Xavier Badosa)

It all began 17 years ago when researchers Jon Lundberg and Eddie Weitzberg published an article entitled "Nitric Oxide and Inflammation: The Answer Is Blowing in the Wind." The last phrase is from one of Dylan's most famous songs.

A few years later, Jonas Frisén and Konstantinos Meletis published an article called "Blood on the Tracks: A Simple Twist of Fate" -- a double reference to Dylan. The text of the article also included Dylan lines.

Then the competition was on at full speed! The researchers determined that whoever published the most number of articles with Dylan quotes before they retired would win lunch at the expense of the others.

Why Bob Dylan of all singers? Because he represents something important in medical research:

Eddie Weitzberg thinks he merits a Nobel prize for Literature while Kenneth Chien compares him to a modern Shakespeare, though in music. But the researchers also draw parallels between Bob Dylan’s music and the world of research.

“A musician who merely continues down the same highway for 30 years is not one who many want to listen to. Good music is innovative, like Bob Dylan’s. And the same thing applies to good research. A researcher must also try to find new and different paths,” says Konstantinos Meletis.

-via Ian Chant

Bears Enjoys Cookies

Posted: 27 Sep 2014 12:00 AM PDT

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In the US, you see a bear at the window and you 1. shut the window, 2. make sure your kids are inside, and 3. call authorities. In Russia? Hand feed the bear! This bear sure likes the sweet pastries he’s getting, even though with a mere leap or swipe of the paw, he could be eating a sturdy human. Things are different in Russia. Of course, we can assume the men know this bear, but you have to wonder how that came to be. The real question is, what happens when you run out of cookies? -via Daily Picks and Flicks

Is Destiny One of the Worst Games of the Year?

Posted: 26 Sep 2014 11:00 PM PDT

Image Via Bungie

Let me start this off by saying I am in-between camps right now when it comes to this game. The following thoughts and feelings on Destiny do not represent Neatorama's feelings about the game whatsoever. That disclaimer made, writer Dan Seitz over at Uproxx put together his thoughts on the game right here, and he has some very hefty accusations to lob at Destiny. But the truth is, going from reviews and people I have talked to, he sums up a good portion of how many gamers feel about the game that was to be Bungie's FIRST non-Halo game. One particular thing that seemed to stand out to him: 

Destiny’s problems come into painfully sharp relief once you hit level 20, which the game has capped as the highest level you can earn through experience points. You can get up to level 30 by collecting gear that has “Light” as an attribute; the more light you have, the higher your level. One problem; the loot system is designed to keep you playing the same missions over and over again on the off-chance you’ll collect a Legendary or Rare engram… which has a strong chance of turning out to be complete and total vendor trash you’ll never use. 

Though I will need a little more time with the game myself before I can determine my own solid thoughts, it just seems fair to represent all sides of the coin. Whether you agree or not, his piece is very well thought out, and makes some very valid points about a game that could have potentially been a game-changer, but might have just missed that mark.

Nature's Most Amazing Animal Superpowers

Posted: 26 Sep 2014 09:00 PM PDT

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Some of the most beloved comic book superheroes have a power that is similar to actual biological mechanisms found in the animal kingdom. See some amazing animal abilities reminiscent of Aquaman and Spiderman, among other comic book heroes, in this PBS It's Okay To Be Smart video, partially shot at Dragon's Lair Comics & Fantasy in Austin, Texas. -Via Science Dump

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The Satanic Children's Book of Big Activities

Posted: 26 Sep 2014 07:00 PM PDT

Image Via TheSatanicTemple

First of all, we need to point out, we do not support or condone any one type of religion or another here at Neatorama. What we do is provide the internet with links to the weirdest, funniest, and most interesting stuff we can find on the web. That having been said, have you heard about the Satanic Children's Book of Big Activities? 

Well, if you live in Florida, rumor is this may be getting distributed to schools, though it is not quite what you may think it is. The Satanic Temple is a political organization that tests the limits of the First Amendment to show how our government and its supporters favor Christianity to the exclusion of other religions. It is not about Satan in so much as it is about showing that if you are going to allow the teaching of certain religions in schools, the same freedoms should be granted for all religions and not just Christianity. Yes, they do that in an unconventional way, yet here we are talking about, which means it is working.

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Making Breakfast with the Twins

Posted: 26 Sep 2014 05:00 PM PDT

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A father demonstrates why it takes so long to make breakfast when you have twin babies. I can imagine it takes much longer to do anything! One baby takes all your time and attention; two will outnumber you, even if you have two stay-at-home parents. The upside is that eventually they will keep each other occupied. The downside is that they will be plotting against you. -via Tastefully Offensive

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